Software Engineering Manager

at Mozilla Corporation Team: : Business Department Locations: : Remote Canada; Remote US

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• Remote Canada; Remote US

To learn the Hiring Ranges for this position, please select your location from the Apply Now dropdown menu. To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this link. Why Mozilla? Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. About this team and role: The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values. Our teams focus on building reliable, scalable backend systems that enable advertising functionality across all Mozilla properties. As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on backend services and platforms that support advertising capabilities. You’ll be responsible for building a healthy, effective team; partnering with product and cross-functional stakeholders; and ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals. This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture. What you’ll do:

• Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
• Lead your team through the delivery of projects and initiatives where problem definition may evolve as requirements, constraints, and learnings become clearer
• Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
• Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time

What you’ll bring:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
• A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
• Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
• Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
• Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
• Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn privacy-sensitive domains

Commitment to our values:

• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical dental vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with immediate vesting regardless of contribution
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone pauses together
• Country specific holidays plus birthday day off
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D disability EAP etc varies by country)

About Mozilla Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe open free better than closed controlled. Working at Mozilla means making a difference for Web users everywhere. Join us to work on Web as platform creating opportunity innovation online. Commitment to diversity equity inclusion belonging Mozilla values diverse creative practices forms knowledge crucial enrich company core mission.We encourage applications from everyone including equity-seeking communities such as women racialized Indigenous persons persons disabilities sexual orientations gender identities expressions.We ensure qualified individuals disabilities reasonable accommodations participate application interview process perform essential functions receive benefits privileges employment contact hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com request accommodation.Equal opportunity employer no discrimination basis race religion gender identity expression color national origin pregnancy ancestry domestic partner status disability sexual orientation age genetic predisposition medical condition marital status citizenship military veteran status other basis covered laws.Mozilla no tolerate discrimination harassment based characteristics unlawful behavior conduct purpose. Group D #LI-DNI Req ID R3055 Hiring Ranges: US Tier1 Locations $194925—$259000 USD US Tier2 Locations $179325—$239000 USD US Tier3 Locations $165600—$220000 USD Canada Tier1 Locations $165000—$220000 CAD Canada Tier2 Locations $149250—$199000 CAD

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